"companies headquartered in the city. Some other notable companies with their headquarters in Berlin are Axel Springer SE, Bombardier Transportation, KPMG Deutschland, , Otis Deutschland, Universal Music Germany, Coca-Cola European Partners Deutschland, Lloyds Banking Group Europe, Pelikan AG, Zalando, GASAG, and Vattenfall Deutschland. The top 10 largest employers in Berlin by number of employees in 2016: Berlin has 788 hotels with 134,399 beds as of December 2014. In 2016 the visitor figures for Berlin have broken records with 31.1 million overnight stays (+2.7%) and 12.9 million hotel guests (+2.9 %). Berlin has a yearly total of estimated 135 million day"
"and licensing. It was started in 1946/1947 by journalist Axel Springer. Its current CEO is Mathias Döpfner. The Axel Springer company is the largest publishing house in Europe and controls the largest share of the German market for daily newspapers; 23.6%, largely because its flagship tabloid ""Bild"" is the highest-circulation newspaper in Europe with a daily readership in excess of 12 million. The media offerings of Axel Springer SE are clustered in: current news, autos, sports, computers and consumer electronics, as well as lifestyle. In addition, the company is active in the online editorial and marketing business with its shares"
"his sons' nanny. Axel Springer Axel Cäsar Springer (2 May 1912 – 22 September 1985) was a German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer SE publishing company. Springer was born in Altona near Hamburg, where his father worked as publisher. As a young man, from July 1941, Springer acted as projectionist at the Waterloo cinema, near the Dammtor railway station, which presented American films for the well-to-do youth of Hamburg until Germany's declaration of war against the United States in December 1941. Springer's career started as an apprentice compositor and publisher at the publishers Hammerich &"
"Axel Springer Axel Cäsar Springer (2 May 1912 – 22 September 1985) was a German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer SE publishing company. Springer was born in Altona near Hamburg, where his father worked as publisher. As a young man, from July 1941, Springer acted as projectionist at the Waterloo cinema, near the Dammtor railway station, which presented American films for the well-to-do youth of Hamburg until Germany's declaration of war against the United States in December 1941. Springer's career started as an apprentice compositor and publisher at the publishers Hammerich & Lesser-Verlag, his father's"
"It was founded in Kraków in 1921; but moved to the capital, Warsaw. The shareholder of the newspaper is Ringier Axel Springer Media AG, a joint venture between the German publishing company Axel Springer and Ringier, the largest international operating media company in Switzerland. Przegląd Sportowy Przegląd Sportowy (, ""Sports Review"") is the oldest and now the only Polish sports daily, founded in 1921 in Kraków. In 1926 it initiated an annual, popular plebiscite for the Polish Sportspersonality of the Year. Its current editor-in-chief is Przemysław Rudzki. The circulation of the newspaper is of around 50,000 copies per day (sale"
"Friede Springer Friede Springer (born Friede Riewerts on 15 August 1942 in Oldsum on the island of Föhr) is a German publisher and widow of Axel Springer. She is the main owner of the Axel Springer SE media conglomerate, and thus of Europe's largest newspaper ""Bild"", and one of the richest people of Germany. A Frisian gardener's daughter, she worked as a nanny at the Springer family's home from 1965 onwards and later became Springer's lover and eventual partner. In 1978 she became Springer's fifth (and last) wife. She is a member of the Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Germany. After"
"important broadsheets, ""Die Welt"". Axel Springer also owns a number of regional newspapers, especially in Saxony and in the Hamburg Metropolitan Region, giving the company a de facto monopoly in the latter case. An attempt to buy one of Germany's two major private TV Groups, ProSiebenSat.1, in 2006, was withdrawn due to large concerns by regulation authorities as well as by parts of the public. The company is also active in Hungary, where it is the biggest publisher of regional newspapers, and in Poland, where it owns the best-selling tabloid ""Fakt"", one of the nation's most important broadsheets, ""Dziennik"", and"
"with a different political affiliation, such as ""Die Welt"", ""Junge Welt"", ""Neues Deutschland"", and ""Die Tageszeitung"". The ""Exberliner"", a monthly magazine, is Berlin's English-language periodical focusing on arts and entertainment. Berlin headquarters two major German-language publishing houses Walter de Gruyter and Springer, each of which publish books, periodicals, and multimedia products. The European and German film industry is present, hosting more than 1000 film and television production companies, 270 movie theaters. Some 300 national and international co-productions are filmed in the region every year. The historic Babelsberg Studios and the production company UFA are located in nearby Potsdam. The city"
"was a member of the Berlin city assembly. In addition, he was one of the pioneers of national and international copyright law. The text of the plaque at Breite Straße 11 in Berlin-Mitte reads: Julius Springer Julius Springer (10 May 1817 – 17 April 1877) was a German publisher. In 1842, Springer founded the retail bookshop Springer in Berlin at the address Breite Strasse 20 (now No. 11), which later, as the scientific publisher Springer-Verlag, passed to his sons Ferdinand and Fritz and today is one of the largest and most prominent academic publishers in the world. In 1848 he"
"in Berlin as part of the Walk of Ideas. Books in Germany As of 2018, ten firms in Germany rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: C.H. Beck, Bertelsmann, , , Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, , Springer Nature, Thieme, , and Westermann Druck- und Verlagsgruppe. Overall, ""Germany has some 2,000 publishing houses, and more than 90,000 titles reach the public each year, a production surpassed only by the United States."" Unlike many other countries, ""book publishing is not centered in a single city but is concentrated fairly evenly in Berlin, Hamburg, and the regional metropolises of"
"Julius Springer Julius Springer (10 May 1817 – 17 April 1877) was a German publisher. In 1842, Springer founded the retail bookshop Springer in Berlin at the address Breite Strasse 20 (now No. 11), which later, as the scientific publisher Springer-Verlag, passed to his sons Ferdinand and Fritz and today is one of the largest and most prominent academic publishers in the world. In 1848 he took part in the side of the insurgents in action against the authorities. Springer was from 1867 to 1873 president of the Booksellers Association of the German booksellers. From 1869 until his death, Springer"
"the Northrhein Wesfalen Region. Early 1980 Alex quickly expended its operation in Germany with Axel Springer Verlag Hoerzu, Bild Zeitung, Abendblatt und Die Welt. Springer also published Der Spiegel This was the official release of the Integrated Advertising System and introduced another mayor milestone and revolutionizing news paper advertising deadlines. In the mid-1980s Atex for the first time expanded its operations outside the United States with an implementation at The Economist and Maclean's Magazine in Toronto, La Tribune de Geneve in Geneva, La Suisse in Geneva, Le Nouvel Economiste in Brussels. This was followed by major installation at Rupert Murdoch’s"
"around a million. The modern paper takes a self-described ""liberal cosmopolitan"" position in editing, but "" Die Welt"" is generally considered to be conservative. The average circulation of ""Die Welt"" is currently about 180,000 (2016 ) and the paper can be obtained in more than 130 countries. Daily regional editions appear in Berlin and Hamburg, and in 2002 the paper experimented with a Bavarian edition. A daily regional supplement also appears in Bremen. The main editorial office is in Berlin, in conjunction with the ""Berliner Morgenpost"". ""Die Welt"" is the flagship newspaper of the Axel Springer publishing group. Its leading"
"Welt am Sonntag Welt am Sonntag (German for ""World on Sunday"") is a German Sunday newspaper published in Germany. ""Welt am Sonntag"" was established in 1948. The paper is published by Axel Springer SE. Its head office is in Berlin, and it has local editions for Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Düsseldorf. It is the Sunday edition of the daily ""Die Welt"". It includes sections on politics, sport, economics, finance, culture, style, travel, and real estate. In 2009, ""Welt am Sonntag"" was recognized as one of the ""World’s Best-Designed Newspapers"" by the Society for News Design, along with four other newspapers."
"April 2008 for publishing material deemed by authorities to be insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammed. ""Der Spiegel"" began moving into its current head office in HafenCity in September 2011. The facility was designed by Henning Larsen Architects of Denmark. The magazine was previously located in a high-rise building with of office space. Der Spiegel Der Spiegel (, lit. """"The Mirror"""") is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 840,000 copies, it is the largest such publication in Europe. It was founded in 1947 by , a British army officer, and Rudolf Augstein, a"
"Books in Germany As of 2018, ten firms in Germany rank among the world's biggest publishers of books in terms of revenue: C.H. Beck, Bertelsmann, , , Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, , Springer Nature, Thieme, , and Westermann Druck- und Verlagsgruppe. Overall, ""Germany has some 2,000 publishing houses, and more than 90,000 titles reach the public each year, a production surpassed only by the United States."" Unlike many other countries, ""book publishing is not centered in a single city but is concentrated fairly evenly in Berlin, Hamburg, and the regional metropolises of Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Munich."" In the 1450s in"
"headquarter of major German-language publishing houses like Walter de Gruyter, Springer, the Ullstein Verlagsgruppe (publishing group), Suhrkamp and Cornelsen are all based in Berlin. Each of which publish books, periodicals, and multimedia products. Berlin's transport infrastructure is highly complex, providing a diverse range of urban mobility. A total of 979 bridges cross of inner-city waterways. of roads run through Berlin, of which are motorways (""Autobahn""). In 2013, 1.344 million motor vehicles were registered in the city. With 377 cars per 1000 residents in 2013 (570/1000 in Germany), Berlin as a Western global city has one of the lowest numbers of"
"of daily newspapers, with numerous local broadsheets (""Berliner Morgenpost"", ""Berliner Zeitung"", ""Der Tagesspiegel""), and three major tabloids, as well as national dailies of varying sizes, each with a different political affiliation, such as ""Die Welt"", ""Junge Welt"", ""Neues Deutschland"", and ""Die Tageszeitung"". The ""Exberliner"", a monthly magazine, is Berlin's English-language periodical focusing on arts and entertainment. Berlin is also the headquarters of the two major German-language publishing houses Walter de Gruyter and Springer, each of which publish books, periodicals, and multimedia products. Industries that do business in the creative arts and entertainment are an important and sizable sector of the"
"largest number of daily newspapers, with numerous local broadsheets (""Berliner Morgenpost"", ""Berliner Zeitung"", ""Der Tagesspiegel""), and three major tabloids, as well as national dailies of varying sizes, each with a different political affiliation, such as ""Die Welt"", ""Junge Welt"", ""Neues Deutschland"", and ""Die Tageszeitung"". The ""Exberliner"", a monthly magazine, is Berlin's English-language periodical focusing on arts and entertainment. Berlin is also the headquarters of the two major German-language publishing houses Walter de Gruyter and Springer, each of which publish books, periodicals, and multimedia products. Industries that do business in the creative arts and entertainment are an important and sizable sector"
"In 2012 the paper was named European Newspaper of the Year in the category of nationwide newspapers. In 2013 ""Welt am Sonntag"" won the same award, but this time in the category of weekly newspapers. During the second quarter of 1992 ""Welt am Sonntag"" had a circulation of 420,00 copies. Its circulation was 381,000 copies in 1997, and 532,000 in 2014. Welt am Sonntag Welt am Sonntag (German for ""World on Sunday"") is a German Sunday newspaper published in Germany. ""Welt am Sonntag"" was established in 1948. The paper is published by Axel Springer SE. Its head office is in"
"Th. Scholl. Later, in 1928, he founded a second publishing house, „Bergis Verlag Wien,“ which published other authors including Max Epstein, Hermann W. Anders, Hellmut Schlien, Fritz v. Unruh, and Berthold Sprung. Edmund Blum died 14. April 1938 in Vienna. On 16 June fans of Irish writer James Joyce across the globe celebrate Bloomsday, and since 1994 in the Hungarian town Szombathely, the birthplace of Leopold Bloom's fictional father Rudolf Virag (Virag in German is Blume). A Joyce statue stands in front of the house at 40 Fö Square where Martin Blum, grandfather of Edmund Blum, lived in the second"
"Der Spiegel Der Spiegel (, lit. """"The Mirror"""") is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of 840,000 copies, it is the largest such publication in Europe. It was founded in 1947 by , a British army officer, and Rudolf Augstein, a former Wehrmacht radio operator who was recognised in 2000 by the International Press Institute as one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes. ""Spiegel Online"", the online sibling of ""Der Spiegel"", was launched in 1994 with an independent editorial staff. Typically, the magazine has a content to advertising ratio of 2:1. ""Der Spiegel"""
"Euro am Sonntag Euro am Sonntag is a German language weekly business and finance magazine published in Munich, Germany. ""Euro am Sonntag"" was started by Axel Springer SE in 1998. The company owned the magazine until May 2010 when it was sold to Frank B. Werner and a Swiss investment company, Finanzen Verlag. The publisher is also the Finanzen Verlag. The previous publisher of the magazine is the Axel Springer Financial Media, a subsidiary of Axel Springer SE. ""Euro am Sonntag"" is published on a weekly basis and is based in Munich. The weekly provides in-depth analyses about financial developments"
"becoming the daily newspaper for millions in Germany and an important influence on public opinion. He went on to launch and acquire a string of papers and magazines characterised by entertainment and conservative politics, ""Die Welt"" among others. The Axel Springer AG today is one of the major magazine, newspaper and online media companies in Europe with over 230 newspapers and magazines as well as more than 80 online offerings. In the late 1960s, Springer was attacked by the German student movement for the political opinions propagated through the tabloid ""Bild"" and the other Springer media, and became a target"
"a move of the paper's editorial headquarters from in Kreuzberg to the Kurfürstendamm. A special sports edition of the paper, ""Sport-B.Z."", was introduced for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and distributed from August of that year with a circulation of 50,000, but was discontinued on 22 December 2006. Since 1991 ""B.Z."" has awarded an annual cultural prize, the . B.Z. (newspaper) B.Z. is a German tabloid newspaper, published in Berlin by Ullstein-Verlag, a subsidiary of Axel Springer AG. As of 2010, it has a circulation of around 200,000. ""B.Z."" is not to be confused with the ""Berliner Zeitung"", which has"
"political parties hold strong ties in Czech media, especially print, where more than 50% of Czech journalists identify with the Right, while only 16% express sympathy for the Left; and the process of commercialization and ""tabloidization"" has increased, lowering differentiation of content in Czech print media. Axel Springer AG is one of the largest newspaper publishing companies in Europe, claiming to have over 150 newspapers and magazines in over 30 countries in Europe. In the 1960s and 1970s the company's media followed an aggressive conservative policy (see Springerpresse). It publishes Germany's only nationwide tabloid, ""Bild"", and one of Germany's most"
"Axel Springer AG headquarters. At its western end Leipziger Platz was given its current name in 1815 in celebration of the Coalition victory over the French Empire at the Battle of Leipzig, and it is sometimes assumed that Leipziger Straße was named at the same time: in fact it already had this name after the historic trade route to Leipzig. On the corner with Leipziger Straße stood the Wertheim department store, then the biggest in Europe. Demolished in 1955/56 the preserved basement of its ruins housed the Tresor techno nightclub in the 1990s. A new shopping mall at the site"
"and the creation of Springer Nature, Nature Publishing Group's owner, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, bought a controlling stake in Frontiers. Before Springer Nature was formed in 2015, Nature Research (as the Nature Publishing Group) was a part of Macmillan Science and Education, a fully owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Nature Research employs more than 800 people in its offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Seoul, Washington, D.C., Boston, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Munich, Madrid, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Delhi, Melbourne, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, São Paulo and Basingstoke. As of September 2016, Nature Research publishes 148 academic journals. The former"
"company. After that, he received practical training in the news agency ""Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau"" and worked as a local reporter for the newspaper Bergedorfer Zeitung. Starting in 1934, he worked as a journalist with Altonaer Nachrichten until the compulsory closure of the newspaper in 1941. From 1941 to 1945, he published literary works in Hammerich & Lesser Verlag. Springer founded his own publishing company, ""Axel Springer GmbH"", in Hamburg in 1946. He published the ""Hamburger Abendblatt"" newspaper, preceded by some magazines, including the popular radio and TV program magazine ""Hörzu"". In 1952, Springer started the publication of the tabloid ""Bild"","
"whose continued operation was vigorously defended editorially by the newspaper. Bild The Bild newspaper (or Bild-Zeitung, literally ""Picture""; ) is a German tabloid published by Axel Springer AG. The paper is published from Monday to Saturday; on Sundays, its sister paper ""Bild am Sonntag"" (""""Bild on Sunday"""") is published instead, which has a different style and its own editors. ""Bild"" is tabloid in style but broadsheet in size. It is the best-selling non-Asian newspaper and has the eight-largest circulation worldwide. Bild has been described as ""notorious for its mix of gossip, inflammatory language, and sensationalism"" and as having a huge"
"important book fair in the world for international deals and trading and has a tradition that spans over 500 years. Many of Europe's best-selling newspapers and magazines are produced in Germany. The papers with the highest circulation are ""Die Zeit"", ""Süddeutsche Zeitung"", ""Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung"" and ""Die Welt"", the largest magazines include ""Der Spiegel"", ""Stern"" and ""Focus"". The ""Bild"" is a tabloid and has the largest circulation of all German papers. Architectural contributions from Germany include the Carolingian and Ottonian styles, important precursors of Romanesque. The region then produced significant works in styles such as the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque."
"Shaker Verlag Shaker Verlag is a German publishing house located in Maastricht and Herzogenrath (postal address Aachen), established in 1986 by Dr. Chaled Shaker. Shaker Verlag is a publisher of scientific literature, especially monographs and dissertations. More than 20,000 books are on stock, many of them in English, also sold as PDF-files for immediate download. In addition, more than 400 series have been published (publications by scientific institutions, research results as well as conference and congress proceedings of European events and meetings). In 2007, the subsidiary ""Shaker Media GmbH"" in Herzogenrath was formed to promote a hybrid solution combining the"
"100 print titles (34 newspapers, 73 magazines) and more than 70 online platforms and established themselves as one of the biggest media companies in the Eastern Europe market (March 2010). Overall the joint venture is the market leader in tabloids and one of the largest provider of magazines. Mark Dekan is currently the CEO of Ringier Axel Springer Media AG. Chairman of the board is Ralph Büchi, President of Axel Springer International. In 2002, it was rumoured that Axel Springer AG was planning an acquisition of Ringier AG. In July 2007, Springer acquired the German TV programme guides TELE, TV4"